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Recipe Recommendation: Pipérade

A pipérade is a Basque dish made with tomatoes, peppers, Bayonne ham, and piment d'espelette. It's often served over scrambled eggs, though some recipe variations call for poaching the eggs ri...

Eggs Benedict and Beyond

Over the weekend, I visited Portland, Oregon. One morning at a local brunch place, I ordered an Eggs Benedict-type dish, but instead of Canadian bacon, it had smoked salmon. It was delicious, and I ...

Recipe Review: Zucchini-Potato Frittata

Last week we highlighted Andrea Chesman's fabulous book Serving Up the Harvest, a down-to-earth and accessible guide to vegetables and recipes for each season. We love her style of cooking and we're e...

Look! Ostrich Eggs on the Table

Take a look at what we just spotted in an Apartment Therapy house tour......

Easy Weekend Breakfast: Corn and Eggs

There are so many things you can do with summer corn, but if you haven't thought about eating it for breakfast, let us persuade you... ...

Weekend Cooking: What's Your Favorite Breakfast Sandwich?

When we're cooking breakfast for two or more, we turn to crowd-pleasing egg dishes like casseroles, stratas and breakfast pizza. But when it's just us, and we're craving something hearty and simple, n...

Finding Cheap Food in San Francisco

Lately, consumers have been concerned about rising food prices, and with good reason. However, it's not hopeless; good bargains are to be found! We've been paying attention to what things are costin...

Inspiration: The Breakfast Manifesto

As we've told you before, we're always looking for breakfast inspiration, and ways to make the most perfunctory meal of the day more interesting. That's why we were thrilled to get New York Magazine'...

Recipe: Egg, Arugula, and Herb Tartine

A tartine is really just a fancy name for an open-faced sandwich. It sounds so much more elegant than sandwich, doesn't it? It seems fitting for this impromptu lunch we had this week. We were pressed ...

Weeknight Supper: Salmon Scrambled Eggs and Toast

We were truly inspired by Dana's post on Sunday about choices, constraints, and wild salmon. It made us think about leftover salmon and making good choices with our leftovers in general. ...

Poached Eggs the Easy Way: Calphalon Egg Poacher

Straight Up: Raw Egg Whites in Cocktails (and Ramos Gin Fizzes) Are Back!

Raw egg whites. They're not just for your breakfast glass of Tiger's Milk anymore. With the recent revival of certain pre-Prohibition cocktails, they've been finding their way back into some spectacul...

Look! Local Ostrich and Emu Eggs at Whole Foods

We don't visit the local Whole Foods very often, and we hadn't inspected their loose selection of local eggs very closely. So we were in for a shock when we wandered over last night and realized that ...

Passover Cooking: Huevos Haminados

These might look like Easter eggs, but actually they're a traditional treat for Passover. We asked NYC caterer and culinary consultant Sierra Spingarn to share the family recipe for Huevos Haminados. ...

Skeptical Shopper: Born Free Hard Boiled Peeled Eggs

Our first reaction to seeing this bag of ready-to-eat, hard-boiled eggs in the grocery store was along the lines of, "That's ridiculous." In fact, that's exactly what our husband said when we put them...

Tip: Perfect Hard-Boiled Eggs

Don't you just hate when this happens? You're hard-boiling eggs to make deviled eggs, and when you peel them, you discover the yolks have clung to one side of the egg, leaving holes. Or, you peel th...

Kitchen Tip: Testing Eggs For Freshness

Even though the "Use By" date on the side of the egg carton says they've expired, sometimes eggs stay fresher past that date. How can you tell their freshness level without cracking them? We have a ...

Eggs, Eggs, and More Eggs: Best Egg Recipes and Products

So, there's a lot of egg on the web right now. It's a post-Easter bandwagon and we have no problem jumping right on. We love eggs and we are in love with egg cups, egg poachers, and eggs on toast and ...

Emu, Turkey, and Turtle: A Dozen Eggs from Gourmet

So Easter is over, and you've wrapped up your Easter egg decorating. You're looking for ways to crack egg salad or something else delicious out of all those pink and green pastel shells. It's not a b...

Easter Table Decorations: Putting Egg Cups to Work

Egg cups make great souvenirs for apartment-dwelling cooks. They don't take up too much space and add a little bit of whimsy to windowsills or cabinets, but are easy enough to clear away when you want...

Urban Agriculture: Raising Chickens in New York City

We've missed the lectures that Owen Taylor, city farms training and livestock coordinator at Just Food, has been giving about raising chickens in NYC. Twice, actually. But we had to know more about th...

Spring Treat: How To Make Golden Chocolate Easter Eggs

Easter is just around the corner; have you started thinking about your Easter bread or spring lamb yet? Well, this recipe for Golden Chocolate Easter Eggs certainly woke us up to spring. This dazzling...

Hellmann's Mayonnaise UK Going Free Range

Hellmann's in the United Kingdom reports that they'll be using free-range eggs in their mayonnaise from now on. We think this is a good idea. Free-range eggs come from chickens that are not caged in...

Recipe: How to Make Hollandaise Sauce

During the week, I'm often too busy to cook breakfast, but as the weekend approaches, I start making mental menus for Saturday and Sunday morning. Freshly brewed coffee, fruit salad, toast with jam, ...